What is Kognity?
Our digital-first platform combines the best of pedagogy and technology to engage learners, build student agency and empower educators. By using Kognity schools improve results for students and save time for teachers.
Kognity is built for US High Schools Science and international schools following the IBDP or IGCSE curriculum.
Most liked features include: interactive content with 3D models, videos and simulations, teacher support, statistics on student progress, a question bank for assignments, autocorrected assignments, and student practice center with strength battles.
Explore why educators all over the globe use Kognity to save time and guide students on active and inclusive learning journeys to unlock their full potential
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Jan 2023
Kognity in Numbers
 Company | Business Name: Kognity HQ Location: Sweden Founded: 2014 |
| Age Range | 14-16, 17-18 |
 Features | TextbooksDigital TextbooksAssessment CentreSend AssignmentsStudent Progress Tracking IgcseIbdpLesson PlanningNgss |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Moderate features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy Policy |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - LinuxMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android Teachers should each have a computer and for students a minimum of at-home access to a computer. Kognity also works on mobile for assignments. A teacher can also have access to a projector to show Kognity content in the classroom, there's a printing feature available for teachers if needed. All users need an individual email to set up their accounts. |
 Set Up | 3 days |
 Training | Live OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos We provide training for all schools, all teachers & students, either online, through workshops, or videos, depending on the school situation. 15 - 30 minute share my screen session |
 Support | EmailFAQs/Forum24/7 Live Rep |
| Home Learning | School must create the account. |
 Tags | IBDPIGCSEIBDP resourceIGCSE resourcedigital educational platformeducational platforminteractive platforminteractive textbookintelligent textbook digital textbookexam practiceassessment tooleducation platform digital assignmentsave teacher timestudent progress trackingprogress trackingNGSShigh school science |
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Kognity Reviews
from 54 Verified Reviews
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May 2024
Because that’s how helpful it might be for teachers
Matthew found Kognity:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Good way to have information”
- Slightly improves attainment“It can be kept at school or home”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“If they read what’s on it then they might know a lot”
SANNI Samadou
Chemistry teacher
Used Kognity daily for 1-2 years
Sep 2023
SANNI Samadou found Kognity:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“It makes it easier for learners to understand the content by providing details”
- Significantly improves attainment“It's the main teaching resource I've been using for the last two years and the results obtained are proof of that.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Jul 2023
I would expect to have more topic specific practice questions taken from the past papers to support students learning and their achievement levels
Neha Chaudhary found Kognity:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“helps in lesson planning and provides support for individualised/personalised learning”
- Significantly improves attainment“By practicing past paper questions and many other questions in relation to a particular topic, students get better hang of the concepts and its relevance.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“There are additional examples given with each topic to support their in-depth understanding of the context”
Jun 2023
Because it is very good
Ruramai Rinomhota found Kognity:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Well structured materials makes teaching easier”
- Significantly improves attainment“Helps to attain”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students find it easy to follow and understand”
Jun 2023
its an excellent platform
matilda wine found Kognity:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“assessment of pupils work”
- Significantly improves attainment“it grades pupils work”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“syllabus content is covered”
Jun 2023
Easy to recommend as they offer a quality product and a quick response when bugs or acceptable answers are suggested
David found Kognity:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Reduced time preparing for classes, shorter grading times and less paperwork.”
- Slightly improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge“The content is topical, relevant and a wider range than I see with some textbooks”
Ian
IB Biology and Chemistry Teacher
Used Kognity weekly for 3-4 years
Jun 2023
As a "textbook" it is the best product I have used in the last decade because it helps hold the students accountable and provides resources for them to reinforce the content in the text.
Ian found Kognity:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“It is easy to assign recall quizzes to help the students focus on the content in the readings and see how well they are doing.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Students who take the time to do the readings and then go back for strengths tests can make marked improvement in their understanding of the content.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“The strengths tests are great ways for students to identify their knowledge gaps, which they can then address.”
Jun 2023
There is always something to improve
LGM found Kognity:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Planning activities”
- Moderately improves attainment“NA”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“NA”
Vicky
IBDP coordinator
Used Kognity occasionally for 5 years+
Jun 2022
You are on a rolling contract and can get stuck into a package that isn't relevant to your current cohort. There is no flexibility if you miss the deadline
Vicky found Kognity:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“None”
- Slightly improves attainment“None”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Not really different to a textbook”
Mar 2022
Is 10 most likely to recommend?
Peter Banfield found Kognity:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Having lots of homework to mark”
- Slightly improves attainment“An example is when someone gets better marks than they did last time”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“When a student learns something, that could be said to be an impact on student knowledge”
Claire
Teacher of MYP Science and DP Biology / DP ESS
Used Kognity weekly for 3-4 years
Oct 2021
KOGNITY is a VERY useful resource for teaching and learning
Claire found Kognity:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“I use Kognity as a teaching and learning tool - it is used as resource i.e doesn't directly reduce my workload”
- Moderately improves attainment“Students find the exam questions very useful”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Consolidation / revision before assessments”
Oct 2021
It's really useful in terms of practice problem solving and content knowledge.
Kholt found Kognity:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“I don't have to grade homework or find problems for students to solve.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Not right now”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“No”
Ogunmola Olanrewaju
Teacher
Used Kognity weekly for 4-6 months
Oct 2021
Kognity serves as an additional resource for teachers and students to have an effective teaching learning process.
Ogunmola Olanrewaju found Kognity:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Questions to be applied have been readily created on Kognity for appropriate usage.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Students get to read about topics to be taught before and after classes at their own pace.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Kognity was built to simplify the course for easier understanding with audiovisual resources.”
Christina
Deputy Head of Mathematics
Used Kognity weekly for 3-4 years
Oct 2021
I think it is a fantastic resource, great on the environment and the students are able to use more than just their textbooks and teachers to learn from.
Christina found Kognity:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Putting together exercise questions for students to use, exam style questions to use, reading [prior to teaching a new concept, learning to use the calculator myself and helping students with their own calculators are all things I can do within Kognity.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Student get a different perspective on the topics than my explanations, they get to see some of the more dynamic aspects within the text book, so that they deepen understanding. These things help them prepare the students better at understanding the style of the questions and then, the practice helps them to put this into action.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“There are some visual learners in one of my classes and they gain better understanding when they see the applets work within the examples and often refer back to them when asked to explain their answers or thinking.”
Oct 2021
All in one
Mirna sahili found Kognity:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Kognity provides teacher with all the necessary coloured diagrams and pictures addition to videos relared to the topics .the lesson is well presented and no need for power point preparation”
- Significantly improves attainment“👍”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Cover all tge syllabus in addition to the connections with CAS and TOK”
Oct 2021
I want to clean assessments to make new regulation but it is not possible.
Turgut Fahri Akbatur found Kognity:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“not only existence but also quality and point of view guiding me”
- Significantly improves attainment“the scheduled program is working well”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“the assessments are not easy, not hard so the students learning without suffering”
Esther Alicia Villarreal Ramírez
Math teacher
Used Kognity weekly for 1-2 years
Oct 2021
There are more exercises on some topics and depending on the level, some have very high standards for the subject
Esther Alicia Villarreal Ramírez found Kognity:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“evaluate”
- Moderately improves attainment“Exercises to check learning”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Homework exercises or practicing concepts”
Oct 2021
It is an excellent add-on to my teaching
Aileen found Kognity:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload
- Does not significantly improve attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge
Oct 2021
The English B textbook still needs revising for mistakes. My students and I have come across many of them while solving the activities. I've reported some, but not enough time to report all of them. I can't see students' responses. I’m new to the platform and my experience has been good, but honestly not great. The textbook material and resources are helpful, yet it is hard to check student progress for reading assignments (there is no place where to assess the end of each section short activity the book proposes). Only a progress bar where you can see if the student actually clicked/checked on the material you assigned. However, i’m trying a new approach. Reading/Listening together in class and creating google classroom submission assignments for them to upload the activity proposed. Most of those activities include answers that students can check right away, so I don’t find them particularly helpful, The platform also lets you create ‘question assignments’ in which you have a question bank to choose from or include your own. I think the idea is cool, but I don’t find it very useful. Example: I created a question style assignment (all from the same subtopic), yet when my students answered them (even when they had read the assigned text) the questions weren’t directly related to the reading. They were more about language use than reading or listening comprehension they need for paper 2. I don’t know if it’s as useful as I thought. On another note. I also find it annoying I can’t modify the textbook by choosing what to show students, they get to see everything including SL assignments (I teach HL). If it’s an online platform, it would be a lot cooler to select only the subtopics I want them to see and show them only the activities of HL.
Ines found Kognity:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Self-correction is a plus sometimes, not for extended answers though. Also because some of the right answers as rendered as wrong.”
- Does not significantly improve attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge“I can't attribute much impact, it's just an aid that contributes to the overall impact in the class.”
Bob
Teacher
Used Kognity weekly for 3-4 years
Oct 2021
For the reasons shared above. Kognity first provides a very good textbook on the IB material. This reading, combined with the school textbook (Oxford), gives students two views which can help remove somewhat incorrect concepts which arise from reading only one source. Second, Kognity provides a large bank of questions at two levels for students to practice their mastery. These along with problems assigned from the school text give a good and broad range of experience with the material for the student. Finally, Kognity provides the option of student dueling with the material which appeals to the more competitive types. The only downside is the grading of problems which look only at the answer which must be in one of a number of formats rather than the method used to get the answer.
Bob found Kognity:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“a. In the sciences, Kognity provides a large body of questions both simple and complex and this saves time making up new questions for the students. b. The teacher has the option of having Kognity grade the work, but this has difficulties which have yet to be satisfactorily solved. For instance, a student may write the correct answer but not in a form expected by Kognity and it will be marked incorrectly. Further, even if the student gets an incorrect answer, it may only be due to a calculator error and the method is correct. Since the method is more important than the answers (in the sciences at least), this can really gives the student the wrong idea about his competence. Hence, my main use of the questions is to hand them out and I grade them to see how the problems were solved.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Students become more proficient by working more and a variety of problems. By combining the two levels of problems from Kognity with those found in our textbook (not to mention Kognity's textbook, which, in most cases, is better than ours) the students get a large number of problems to work. Those who are diligent to complete the assigned work will be better prepared for the IB exams.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“By providing a good textbook on the IB material, the students get the same material from somewhat different perspectives and this helps dispel incorrect concepts.”
Oct 2021
I believe Kognity is a very useful tool to help a teacher organize their class according to the IB program
Eugenio found Kognity:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Less time spent on checking assignments”
- Moderately improves attainment“Kognity helps me be more punctual with giving feedback to students”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students can review and practice different topics on their own”
Oct 2021
There are no downsides to Kognity! It complements how we are already teaching our students, and makes different modes of learning (including distance learning and hybrid) easier. My students also love it as an extra resource.
Sarah found Kognity:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“It allows me to quickly set lesson plans for days when I have appointments or I'm unable to come to school. There are also lots of resources that can be integrated into existing lessons, saving time on finding resources or making new ones. The statistics showing who has read the sections and done the questions also saves time as this is all automatically checked and displayed graphically.”
- Slightly improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Exposure to different vocabulary / different ways of explaining things enhances student's understanding of concepts.”
Oct 2021
I absolutely love using Kognity! Kognity regularly updates the material so it always current.
Stephanie Dukes found Kognity:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“I can't imagine teaching TOK without Kognity.”
- Significantly improves attainment“I see a lot of growth when students take the strength tests as they are learning new material.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“I can see the student data which is organized in a way that makes it easy for me to see how students are learning the material.”
Oct 2021
As said, students need to see the answer after each question when the question is still fresh in their minds and not at the end .
Renu found Kognity:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Good replacement for Formatives”
- Slightly improves attainment“Students don't end up doing it as it is online and they don't get to see the answers after each question”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“If a student misses a lesson, the notes are good enough”
Scott Yetter
Teacher / Athletic Director
Used Kognity daily for 1-2 years
Oct 2021
It is so nice to have everything in one place. The material is well organized and of high quality. The ability to have individualized and targeted exam review can't be beaten.
Scott Yetter found Kognity:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Everything is in the system. Reading assignments, question assignments, review. But the biggest significance for me is the review materials and practice exam questions that are built in. It made exam review much more efficient and relevant to each individual student.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Last year was our first year using Kognity, and the overall IB scores were better than they have ever been, and this was not the most talented group that I have had.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The built in review with strength tests and battles helped to solidify their knowledge.”
